From migratory practices to modern language, learn how sheep have played a major role in the history of humanity.

Sheep shaped human history for 12,000 years. Scientists traced their migration, domestication, and genetic evolution.

Cosmos Magazine reports that analysis of DNA samples taken from 118 sheep bones unearthed at archaeological sites in Europe ...

Mr Nevill, whose family owns the 1800-acre Birling Estate near West Malling, said: “We have a shepherd here who brought in 200 sheep to graze on our cover crops over winter, and recently some did ...

Most modern domesticated sheep grow white wool because it is more commercial as it can be dyed any colour. But sheep can have many different colours including grey, silver, red and moorit (brown).

Subscribe for FREE Specifically, the main gene the team found evidence of selection near was one known as “KIT”, which is associated with white coat colour in a range of livestock. Also by that time, ...

The rise of pastoralist peoples in the Eurasian steppes and their westward spread some 5,000 years ago may have been fuelled ...

New DNA research uncovers how ancient sheep migrations shaped farming, revealing key domestication and breeding traits over 12,000 years.

A bighorn sheep blends with the colors of the surrounding rock on Red Dot Trail in White Rock in another wonder of nature. Photo by RIchard Skolnik Bighorn sheep are back on the trail again in ...